300+ Manufacturing & Construction Jobs in Charlotte, NC

Use the local government wage data as the anchor and treat current posting pay as a mixed-role signal. In May 2025, Charlotte's mean wage was $31.42/hour for construction and extraction roles and $30.44/hour for installation, maintenance, and repair roles. By contrast, current local postings show hourly-paid roles centering on about $23 to $30 / hour and salary-listed roles centering on about $80k to $118k, which likely reflects a blend of frontline trades, supervisors, project staff, and field engineers rather than one typical job.

Full July 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 163 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $45,760 at the 25th percentile, $52,000 at the median and $62,670 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 10, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

This is a split market, not a single trend. Charlotte's mining, logging, and construction employment reached 91.8 thousand and was up 9.0% over 12 months, which is a strong backdrop for construction, skilled trades, and field-service work tied to projects and buildings. But metro manufacturing employment was 105.7 thousand in June 2026 and down 3.5584% year over year, so plant and production hiring is softer than the construction side of this category. The practical read for job seekers is favorable conditions for licensed trades, maintenance, and field leadership, but a more selective market for factory production and general manufacturing roles.

Best positioned: The best odds right now go to candidates who can show trade depth or site credibility: licensed or apprentice-track electricians, HVAC and plumbing talent, maintenance technicians with troubleshooting ability, and crew or project leads who can combine safety, blueprint reading, and field coordination.

Main caution: The biggest mistake is assuming the construction upswing automatically means the whole category is hot; Charlotte construction is expanding while metro manufacturing is contracting.

From the July 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 332 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Cookout: 13 open roles
2. Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC: 13 open roles
3. RPM Living: 10 open roles
4. Cbre: 9 open roles
5. Asplundh: 6 open roles
6. Mauser Corp.: 6 open roles
7. Camden Property Trust: 5 open roles
8. Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated: 5 open roles
9. Brookfield Properties: 4 open roles
10. CBRE, Inc.: 4 open roles

Where the openings are

• Charlotte: 202
• Concord: 19
• Gastonia: 11
• Rock Hill: 11
• Mooresville: 10
• Huntersville: 9
• Monroe: 7
• Matthews: 7

Work arrangement

on-site 322 (98%), remote 4 (1%), hybrid 2 (1%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated in construction-led work rather than spread evenly across the whole category. In the metro, mining, logging, and construction employment reached 91.8 thousand in June 2026 and was up 9.0% over 12 months, while about 60% of sampled local postings in this category came from construction-related employers. Contractors also describe a shortfall of roughly 5,000 workers against a future project pipeline of nearly $20 billion, which helps explain why apprenticeship, craft labor, project engineering, and field leadership are showing up so clearly in current recruiting. A second pocket sits around building systems, commercial properties, infrastructure, and engineering-adjacent field work. The most active employers in the sample include WSP Global, Comfort Systems USA, Zachry Group, Jacobs Engineering Group, M.C. Dean, Pike Corporation, Gilbane Building Company, and HDR, and hiring is fragmented rather than dominated by one employer. That is good news for candidates willing to search across contractors, engineering firms, utilities, and service operators instead of waiting for one big-name employer. Manufacturing is still part of the market, but it is not the strongest lane right now. Metro manufacturing employment was 105.7 thousand in June 2026, down 3.5584% year over year, so plant and production applicants should expect a narrower market than job seekers targeting site-based construction, maintenance, or field service.

• Commercial construction and project delivery (high): This is the strongest segment. Construction accounts for about 60% of sampled category postings locally, and metro mining, logging, and construction employment was up 9.0% year over year.
• Building systems, utilities, and field service (high): This lane benefits from repeat demand across contractors and engineering-linked employers, with local skill signals centered on troubleshooting, blueprint reading, safety compliance, plumbing, and preventive maintenance.
• Plant production and general manufacturing (limited): This remains a real lane, but it is weaker than construction right now because Charlotte metro manufacturing employment was down 3.5584% year over year.

Where to focus: If you can choose, put your first applications into on-site construction, building-systems, and infrastructure employers, and treat pure plant production roles as a secondary lane unless you bring specialized maintenance, quality, or leadership experience.

Roles worth searching next

• Facilities coordinator / property operations coordinator: Real estate accounts for about 10% of local category-adjacent postings, so building maintenance, vendor coordination, and service dispatch experience can transfer into property-side operations.
• CAD drafter / BIM support: Engineering makes up about 10% of the local mix, and AutoCAD plus blueprint reading already show up in current skill demand.
• Safety coordinator / EHS specialist: Safety compliance is a frequent local requirement, making this a credible move for candidates who already know jobsite rules, incident prevention, and documentation.
• Supply chain / materials coordinator: Project management demand plus overlap across construction, manufacturing, and engineering employers creates room for candidates who understand ordering, staging, scheduling, and handoffs.

What postings ask for

• Registered apprenticeship readiness (differentiator | immediate): Local contractor recruiting is leaning on formal registered apprenticeship pathways, especially for electricians, plumbers, HVAC techs, and field leadership pipelines. Who: Entry-level candidates, career switchers, and helpers trying to move into licensed trade work.
• Valid driver's license (table_stakes | immediate): A valid driver's license is the most commonly named credential in the local posting sample, which fits a market where most work is on-site and often spread across customer or job sites. Who: Anyone targeting field service, maintenance, utilities, or multi-site construction work.
• Blueprint reading (table_stakes | immediate): Blueprint reading is one of the most requested hard skills in local postings, making it a baseline screen for both field and project-support roles. Who: Entry-level trades candidates, installers, service techs, and career switchers coming from adjacent manual work.
• Safety compliance (table_stakes | immediate): Safety compliance appears as a core requested skill in local postings, and it is one of the clearest ways to show jobsite readiness quickly. Who: All candidate types, especially those applying to contractors, utilities, and field operations teams.
• Troubleshooting and diagnostics (differentiator | immediate): Troubleshooting is a top local skill signal, and national occupation guidance points to electrical diagnostics and mechanical-system diagnostics as core hiring criteria for electricians and HVACR techs. Who: Maintenance technicians, HVAC candidates, electricians, and manufacturing workers trying to pivot into service-heavy roles.
• Project management (premium | near-term): Project management is the single most-requested hard skill in the local posting sample, which signals better odds and better pay for candidates who can coordinate schedules, crews, vendors, and documentation. Who: Mid-career tradespeople, foremen, project engineers, and anyone moving toward supervision.

Questions about this market

What do Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services roles pay in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC?

Use the local government wage data as the anchor and treat current posting pay as a mixed-role signal. In May 2025, Charlotte's mean wage was $31.42/hour for construction and extraction roles and $30.44/hour for installation, maintenance, and repair roles. By contrast, current local postings show hourly-paid roles centering on about $23 to $30 / hour and salary-listed roles centering on about $80k to $118k, which likely reflects a blend of frontline trades, supervisors, project staff, and field engineers rather than one typical job. Charlotte looks like a solid trade market, but not every role is a premium-pay role. The observed local trade averages are close to current national manufacturing hourly pay of $30.35, while national construction earnings were higher at $39.24/hour in July 2026, which suggests the best local offers are concentrated in scarcer licenses, tougher field conditions, or leadership-heavy roles.

Where is demand for Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services roles in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated in construction-led work rather than spread evenly across the whole category. In the metro, mining, logging, and construction employment reached 91.8 thousand in June 2026 and was up 9.0% over 12 months, while about 60% of sampled local postings in this category came from construction-related employers. Contractors also describe a shortfall of roughly 5,000 workers against a future project pipeline of nearly $20 billion, which helps explain why apprenticeship, craft labor, project engineering, and field leadership are showing up so clearly in current recruiting. A second pocket sits around building systems, commercial properties, infrastructure, and engineering-adjacent field work. The most active employers in the sample include WSP Global, Comfort Systems USA, Zachry Group, Jacobs Engineering Group, M.C. Dean, Pike Corporation, Gilbane Building Company, and HDR, and hiring is fragmented rather than dominated by one employer. That is good news for candidates willing to search across contractors, engineering firms, utilities, and service operators instead of waiting for one big-name employer. Manufacturing is still part of the market, but it is not the strongest lane right now. Metro manufacturing employment was 105.7 thousand in June 2026, down 3.5584% year over year, so plant and production applicants should expect a narrower market than job seekers targeting site-based construction, maintenance, or field service.

Which employers are hiring the most Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services talent in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC?

Recent postings show the most activity from WSP Global Inc. (40 postings), Comfort Systems USA, Inc. (40 postings), Zachry Group (30 postings), Jacobs Engineering Group (30 postings), M.C. Dean, Inc. (30 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services roles in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 4% are remote and 10% hybrid, with 90% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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